Saturday, January 2, 2016

Would like to send warmest and heartfelt best wishes to all friends around the world.

May health happiness and PEACE be with all of us !

HAPPY NEW YEAR & Happy Holidays !

a full year... not too easy... but with quite a lot of nice minis...and many new contacts :)
I am especially happy and thankfull for several special orders where wishes could be fullfilled !
I continued with 1:12 scale but also did a lot of things for 1 :18 as this size is the Lundbyhouse size and many friends have them !Even 1:24 a few items.

Then ..there was a "Pippi" contest by Scandinavians in Jamestowm/New York/ USA and they needed some little books with various titles of Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Longstocking !
I happily made them for them, and got to know their association :)
This leeds to the little "bestseller" of the year in the etsy shop i have with my friend Inge, Minis4you!
It is definetely the tiny little old Pippi title.:)

Saturday, June 6, 2015

a lttle tribute to my (many years passed away) Grandma..getting older myself, i feel stronger for her and her last years she spent with us ! I am trying to sort of "reproduce" the atmosphere in her room, including some items she had liked :)
The room is not finished, but - besides trying to sell some minis- i am also working on some special and more personal things :)
Here are some pictures of Grandma and her belongings .so far !
The doll is made by my friend Inge Zieres, especially for me :) ( well....and for Praline! ) .
I will use old invitations from the township of Cologne on the walls , she had saved them ...nearly 100 years old now !

she had loved this painting by Wilhelm Leibl, Women praying in church

much left to do !

Thank you all for commenting on my last post :)
Yes, Mikropragmatakia will be in Spain next weekend...but i myself am staying in Athens .

Thursday, June 4, 2015

When seeing this little picture, i couldn't resist...had to make a frame with it :)

Life is crazy sometimes :) :)

It fits well in ...my dollhouse :) (and not only !!)

A new friend in miniland makes these frames with plaster..perfect size :) nice to paint ..or glue paper to :) like this :

Biggest news is , i will be presented on the miniature fair in Marabella , Spain , on June 13 th and June 14th ! A very kind friend, Kathleen Sala from "International Doll's houses" will have 4 of her dear friends on her table for the fair :) There is Inge from Germany, Sophia and Mimi from Greece , and me ...Greece/Germany :

I have already mentioned my friends several times in older posts, but here are the links again!

Inge : https://www.facebook.com/inge.zieres?fref=ts

Sophia: https://www.facebook.com/spirtokouto.miniatures?fref=ts

Mimi : https://www.facebook.com/mimi.topia.9?fref=ts

Now..at the fair , you can also win a doll's house! There is a special draw for winning

this beautiful house, as it is in the pictures!

The house is handmade by Kathleen Sala and donated by her for the draw. All money collected with the participations (only 5 euro!!! ) will be donated to two well known organisations in Spain who offer help to cancer patients and their families!

YOU NEED TO KNOW : You can also participate in this special draw via email - as not everybody can travel to Spain,..and so have the chance to win it !

Sunday, April 5, 2015

she is a special doll...my friend Inge Zieres (you can find her on fb also as Minimagicblog) made for me on my special request! She tried to make her look a little bit like my real grandmother using some photos! Grandma Millie has long passed away, but sometimes i miss her dearly...! So in miniature now she will have her own little place, i will slowly fill it with memories :) First piece was the old armchair, which we "inherited" from her and which is still a favorite place to sit for all of us !
I think she fits nicely with Praline! (who also got a lttle cat now! again..a present!! )

And ..nearly forgot, the latest items,
1. it is a bought pattern to print out...for a tiny cute paper-stove! i cut, glued and painted it and added the stovepipe..which was not with the pattern!
Guess who will have a new kitchen? :)

Easter coming up..soon..and it is no April's fool joke...i am still here :)
Firstly i must apologize to BIRGIT and Flutterby , i would like to say a big Thank you here,too, for the wonderful surprise christmas presents!!! :) (better late than never! ...) And also Thanks to quite a number of Blogfriends for greetings! :)
To cut things short..well wrapped up in everyday life, but continuing mini making and enjoying the fun!
I had a wondeful present some time ago,i got a Lundby dollhouse from dear friends.
Ηadn't really known much about Lundby houses , but quickly got to join the "club" , discovering that there are fans and collectors of course all over the world, and made quite a number of new and nice aqaintances through Lundby-grous on fb.

Mini books ...of course! Still loving doing them :)

Paper things...yes, still favorite ! :)
Praline and Caramel ? Yes..happy and well! :)
We are joined by Antonio, the baker and Sonja, a beautiful "young lady" , Pietro- a little bear visiting from Germany!AND Grandma, a new little doll my friend from Frankfurt made for me , e..Praline :) !She is made after a picture of my real Grandma!

So,here are various pictures from the first months of 2015

Here's January :

new mini mini books :)

Grandma arrived :) Oma ist angekommen :)

Kitchen cabinett made from left overs business cards..
a copy of a ready one, as shown in picture below! ( the size is 1:12)

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ready one on the left!!!

February 2015 :not many minis , as we started moving house..BUT i made (not readable) mini encyclopedias( for 1:12 libraries..) ..which do look nice! And some newspapers..:)

March 2015 :Moving (real life ) house...and the LUNDBY dollhouse...which also led to making more mini books in smaller size apart from 1:12 ! Lundby items are in 1 :18.!

First Grandma got her armchair, which is a copy made by me, of her own armchair she had back home :) It is ever so comfortable and we still love it and keep it!

Then....the LUNDBY house arrived ..and we started .,.thinking in 1 :18 !!! :)

About Me

Greek/German, mother of 3 young men. I started blogging about my Grandfather..but using the internet increased my hobby MINIATURES and dollhouses! Happy that you found my blog...enjoy all "Littlethings" or "Mikropragmatakia" in Greek!